Senior Social Worker - Duty and Assessment

Senior Social Worker - Duty and Assessment

Northampton , Northamptonshire , England
NN2

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 300 reviews has an exciting Permanent opportunity available for an experienced Senior Social Worker to join a well-established Children's service based in Northampton.

Team/Specialism: Duty and Assessment

Contract: Permanent

Summary:

1. The role is responsible for providing practical and social work support for children, young people and families.
2. This involves holding a more complex caseload, including undertaking assessments, visiting children and their families, carrying out interventions, reviewing the work undertaken, and direct work with children, young people and families.
3. All this must be based on best evidence and good practice, privileging the best interests of children and young people.
4. The post holder could be expected to offer mentoring, work-shadowing/work experience opportunities and study towards the Practice Educator qualification and post qualifying modules.

Benefits of the role:

1. Highly competitive salaries and benefits
2. Retention Bonus
3. Costs of Social Work England registration covered
4. 27 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays, an additional 5 days after 5 years' service
5. Opportunity to buy back up to 5 weeks of additional holiday each year
6. Subsidised local authority pension scheme
7. Free Car Parking (Daventry) and £20 per month subsidised in Northampton TC
8. Shops close by
9. Fantastic Induction Programme
10. Practice Educator Qualifications
11. Monthly high quality supervision
12. Mandatory Signs of Safety training
13. Fantastic Maternity Benefits with an additional 12 weeks of maternity leave at 50%
14. Employee discount scheme offering a range of discounts from travel to shopping
15. Up to £8,000 relocation costs
16. Opportunities to regularly engage with the CEO and leadership team

Requirements of the Senior Social Worker:

1. Degree or equivalent in social work
2. Current Social Work England registration
3. Significant frontline experience in Children's Services

Contact:

This Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from any experienced Social Work candidate with experience as a Newly Qualified, Social Worker, Practitioner, Assistant Team Manager, Team Manager, Head of Service or Director.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work applicants who meet these requirements for this Permanent Social Work role as we need to meet our clients' requirements.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.